ATM Modernization

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March 8-12 PMA-209 Air Combat 2010, Silver Legacy Resort, Reno, Nev. Visit www.navair.navy.mil. 9-10 FAA Aviation Forecast Conference, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Contact FAA, phone 202-267-7924. 9-11 ATC Global…

ATM Modernization

Situation: Airport Surface

FAA and industry are developing a standard for displaying airport surface traffic in the cockpit, coupled with alerting of potential runway conflicts, using Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) position reports. Two industry teams…

Commercial

Southwest Airlines Selects Teledyne Systems

Teledyne Controls, of El Segundo, Calif., announced a contract Thursday with Southwest Airlines to provide its LoadStar Server Enterprise (LSE) software and PMAT 2000 Portable Maintenance Access Terminal to support data distribution and…

Military

Bat UAV Completes Flight Tests

Northrop Grumman said Thursday it completed the series of flights of its Bat unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Configured with a 12-foot wingspan, the Bat-12 incorporates a Hirth engine and a low acoustic…

Commercial

Alaska Airlines to Deploy Gogo

Alaska Airlines will deploy Aircell’s Gogo in-flight Internet service, opting against the Row44 service it had been testing since last year. Alaska Airlines and Aircell will begin the certification process for the…

Business & GA

L-3 Standby Instrument Approved for Helicopters

L-3 Avionics Systems received FAA Technical Standard Order (TSO) approval for its Trilogy ESI-1000 Electronic Standby Instrument (ESI on Part 27 and Part 29 rotary-wing aircraft. This all-in-one glass standby instrument is the first…

Commercial

navAero EFB Awarded EASA STC

navAero's tBag C22 Class 2 electronic flight bag (EFB) was awarded an EASA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Embraer E135BJ Legacy, the company announced Monday. The STC was granted to navAero and its partner…

Business & GA

Blue Hawaiian Installs Thales Generators

Helicopter tour operator Blue Hawaiian Helicopters installed Thales’s electrical systems 160-amp starter generators on its fleet of Eurocopter AS350B2s and EC130B4s. Blue Hawaiian said it replaced its generators with the Thales version…